Copy-holder.



PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

F. G. SHOBERT.

COPY HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED NOV.25,1905.

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No. 831,885. PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906 F. G. SHOBERT.

COPY HOLDER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIG CLARKE SHOBERT, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

COPY-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18,1906.

A li ti fil d November 25, 1905. Serial No. 289,027

- had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in copyand manuscript holders, and the invention relates more particularly to aholder adapted to be used by stenographers and type-writers when copyingmanuscript.

The invention has for its primary object the provision of novel meansfor adjustably supporting manuscript; also novel means whereby each lineof the manuscript may be closely followed. To this end I have devised acopy or manuscript holder adapted to be mounted upon the desk or tablewhere it is used, and I have constructed my improved copy-holder wherebyit can be adjusted to hold the manuscript at any desired angle visibleto the eye of the person copying or using the same. I have alsoconstructed the holder whereby it may be used as a book holder orsupport for reading purposes, and throughout the entire construction ofthe holder I have embodiedbertain novel features of construction whichpermit ofthe holder being manufactured at a comparatively small cost.

The entire'holder or structure is preferably constructed of pressedsheet metal, and the detail construction of the same, together withother objects which will hereinafter appear, will be described; butreference will first be had to the accompanying drawings, wherein likenumerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout theseveral Views, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improvedcopy-holder. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of the holder detached from the main supporting-standard andpositioned to support and retain a book or manuscript. Fig. 4 is adetail view of the upper end of a movable standard used in connectionwith the main supporting-standard, illustrating the manner in which themovable standard is sheared or cut. illustrating the completed upper endof the movable standard. Fig. 6 is a plan of the Fig. 5 is a similarview same. Fig. 7 is a plan of the retaining-band used in connectionwith the movable standard. Fig. 8 is a front elevation of the same; Fig.9, detail views of a pivotal connection formed between the standard andthe copyholder proper. Fig. 10 is a plan of the screw used with thepivotal connection. Fig. 11 is a plan of the base of the standard. Fig.12

is a side elevation. Fig. 13 is a detail view of the end of the mainstandard. Fig. 14 is a sectional view taken on 'the line as w of Fig.13. Fig. 15 is an edge view of a clamp.

To put my invention into practice, I con struct my improved copy ormanuscript holder of two partsa manuscript-supporting member 1 and astandard 2, these parts being pivotally connected together, as at 3. Themember 1 is constructed of two plates 4 and 5, the plate 4 beingslidably mounted upon the plate 5. These plates are substantiallytriangular in form, havin curved converging edges 6 6 and 7 7, the edges6 6 of the plate 5 converging to a tongue longitudinally-disposed slot 9formed therein. The lower end of the plate 4 is bent downwardly, as at10, and slotted, as at 11, to receive the tongue 8 of the plate 5. Theplate 4 is provided at its lower end'with an adjustable screw 12, whichextends down-' wardly through the slot 9 of the tongue 8, and said screwis adjusted to lock the plate 4 upon the tongue 8 of the plate 5 in anydesired position. By simply gripping the screw 12 and rotating itslightly the plate 4 can be adjusted and then fixed relativeto the plate5.

The lower edge of the plate 5 is bent upwardly, as at 14, and then at anangle, as at 15, forming a bracket 16, which has its outer edgesslotted, as at 17 17. Mounted upon said bracket is a set ofpivotally-connected levers 18, said levers being arranged similar to apair of lazy-tongs. The ends 19 19 of the lazy-tongs, as they will behereinafter termed, are slidably mounted in the slots 17 '17 of thebracket 16, while the upper ends 20 20 of said tongs are slidablymounted in slots 21 21, formed in an angular metallic follower 22, theupper edge 23 of said follower being adapted to bear upon the manuscriptmounted upon the plates 4 and 5.

A conventional form of clamp 24 may be used in connection with the topedge of the plate 4 to hold a manuscript or copy upon the plates 4 and5, said clamp being illustrated in Fig. 15 of the drawings. Whena 8,having a manuscript is placed upon the member 1, the upwardly-bent edge14 of the plate 5 is adapted to support the lower edges of themanuscript, while the clamp 24 will firmly hold the upper edge of themanuscript while the follower 22 is being moved over said I manuscriptor copy.

The rear face of the plate 5 is provided with two outwardly-extendingpierced lugs 25 25, and pivotally mounted between said lugs by anadjustable screw or bolt 26 is the con tracted pierced end 27 of themain standard 28.

The contracted pierced end 27 of said standard, together with the lugs25 25, are made of a sufficient size to provide a frictional surfacebetween the end of the stand ard 28 and said lugs, the screw or boltbeing adapted to govern the friction that exists be tween the end 27 andthe lugs 25 25 and hold the member 1 in any desired position relative tothe standard 2.

. upper ends of the standards 29 and 30, as inform pierced lugs dicatedat 33, and bend the split edges outwardly to form parallel pierced lugs34 34. In these lugs is mounted an adjustable screw 35, employed forcontracting the upper ends of the standards. When one standard ismounted within the other, the screws 35 are adapted to be adjusted toclamp the upper end of the standard upon the standard which slides intoit, and in connection with these clamps the retaining-bands 31 31 are employed for limiting the movement of one standard within another, eventhough the clamps 32 were not used. The retainingbands are constructedby splitting a band, as at 36, and bending its ends outwardly to 37 37,through whicha setscrew 38 passes to expand or contract the split endsof the band. The retaining-bands can be secured upon any part of thestandards and when clamped upon the standard the retaining-band isadapted to rest upon the end of a standard in which the first-mentionedstandard is mounted.

The portable standard 30 is supported by a base 39, said base beingpierced, as at 40 40, in order that it may be secured to a desk or tablein connection with which it is used. The base. 39 is provided with anupwardlyeXtending split collar 41, similar to the upper ends of thestandards heretofore described, a set-screw 42 being employed to clampthe collar upon the lower end of the standard 30.

The lower end of the main standard 28,is

split or sheared, as at 43 43, to form lugs 44 44, said lugs being bentinwardly to grip a piece of rubber'or resilient material 45, whichprotrudes out of the end of the standard 28. his piece of rubber orresilient material is employed to prevent the end of a standard 28 frominjuring or scarring the polished surface of the desk or tablev inconnection with which it is used when the co y-holder ormanuscript-holder is being use in the position shown in Fig. 3 of thedrawings, where it is adapted to support a book or manuscript inposition convenient to a person copying or reading the same.

By the construction of the numerous parts of the standard 2 it will beobserved that the same can be readily disassembled and assembled and inthe justed to retain the member 1 at any desired height and while in theformer condition may be packed in a comparatively small space orassembled to be used either in the position shown in Fig. 3 of thedrawings or as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. In eitherposition the copy or manuscript holder is used for following each andevery line of the manuscript or copy, this being accomplished by theperson using the same moving the follower 22 as the copying or readingof the manuscript progresses.

The lazy-tongs which I employ for moving the follower may be constructedof resilient and spring steel, whereby the follower will always bepressed in engagement with the manuscript or copy over which it travels,and to facilitate the moving of the follower the same may be providedwith a button or knob whereby it can be easily and quickly manipulated.

From the foregoing it will be observed that my improved copy ormanuscript holder consists of comparatively few parts that are simpleand durable, and such changes in the size, proportion, and minor detailsof the holder as are permissible by the appended claims may be resortedto without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

latter position may be ad- What I claim, and desire to secure by Let- Yters Patent, is-

1. A copy-holder embodying two supporting-plates slidably connectedtogether, one of which has a bracket at its lower end provided withslots, a follower movable across the upper face of said plates andprovided with a pair of slots and lazy-tongs having their upper endsconnected in the slots of the follower and their lower ends connected inthe slots of the bracket.

2. In a copy-holder, a copy-holding medium adjustable to increase anddecrease its length, a folding support, a line-follower hung on saidfolding support and movable up and down on the copy-holding medium, a

ed to the copy-holding medium, a movable standard into which .said mainsupportingstandard telescopes, and a cushion fitted in the lower end ofthe main standard.

3. In a copy-holder, a copy-holding plate,

adjustable to increase and decrease itslength,

combined with a folding support arranged in front of the copy-holdingplate, a line-follower carried by said support and movable up and downon said copy-holding plate, a main supportingstandard, and a movablesupporting-standard, the main supportingstandard pivotally connected tothe copyholding plate and adapted in one position to telescope in themovable supporting-standard, and in another position to act alone as asupport for the plate.

4. In a copy-holder, a copy-holding element embodying twoslidably-connected plates, one of which has a supporting-ledge at itslower end, a bracket projecting from said ledge and provided with a pairof slots, a linefollower movable on the copy-holding element andprovided with a pair of slots, and lazy-tongs having one end slidablyconnected in the slots of the line-follower and their other end slidablyconnected in the slots of the said bracket.

5. In a copy-holder, a copy-holding medium embodying a plate, lugscarried on the rear face of said plate, a substantially inverted-L-shaped main supporting-standard pivotally connected at its upper endto said lugs, a cushion fitted in the lower end of said mainsupporting-standard, and a portable standard receiving the cushioned endof said main supporting-standard.

6. In a copy-holder a copy-holding medium embodying a plate, and lugscarried on the rear face of said plate, combined with a portablestandard, and a substantially L- shaped main supporting-standardpivotally connected at one end to said lugs and adapted to support saidplate when engaged in said portable standard and when resting direct onthe support.

7. A copy-holder embodying two slidablyconnected plates forming thecopy-holding medium, one of said plates having an integral bracket atits lower end, said bracket provided with slots, a line-follower movableon the plates and provided with slots and lazy-tongs pivotally connectedat one end in the slots of the line-follower and at the other end in theslots of the bracket.

8. In a copy-holder, a copy-holding medium embodying a plate, aline-follower movable up and down on the plate, and springpressed lazytongs pivotally attached at their upper ends to the line-follower andpivotally attached at their lower ends to the copy-holding medium.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

FREDERIC CLARKE SHOBER'I.

Witnesses:

JAMES S. CRAWFORD, MALCOLM MOMILLAN.

